The demand for a product or service would likely decrease as price increases as far as the classic downward-sloping demand curve is concerned. In addition, this specific type of demand curve characterises increase of consumer demand as the price significantly falls.
Question Completion:
ANSWER CHOICES
A. operating with decreasing returns to scale
B. a natural monopoly
C. a legal monopoly
D. monopolistically competitive
E. productively efficient
Answer:
Based on this data, the market for product Z is:
A. operating with decreasing returns to scale.
Explanation:
For the Average Revenue (Price) to equal the Average Total Cost (ATC) and enable the firms operating in the market to break-even, the firms must increase their production units from 2 million to 3.5 million units. The conclusion that the market for product Z is operating with decreasing returns to scale for a single supplier is because it will take a 75% increase in production for the average total cost to fall from $7 to $5 for the single producer. In other words, the percentage increase in production does not result in a proportionate decrease in average total cost.
In a command economy, it is the b) government who decides what goods will be produced.
